PROCEEDINGS. 



To Mr. Summerfield, Gardener to J. S. Venn, Esq., of High- 

 bury, for a well-flowered plant of Dendrobium Chrysauthum. 



II.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridge\vorth,sent a much-varied and extremely 

 interesting collection of Pears, many of them new and others good 

 specimens of well-known kinds, chiefly from pyramidal trees on 

 Quince stocks ; but a few from trees under glass in his orchard- 

 houses. Among the latter were Brown Beurre large and fine, 

 and so different in appearance from fruit of the same kind ripened 

 out of doors as to be easily mistaken for another variety. Of 

 novelties those which seemed the most remarkable were Nouveau 

 Poiteau, Josephine de Malines, Laure de Glymes, and Triomphe 

 de Jodoigne. The Laure de Glymes is a medium-sized very 

 attractive Pear, with a warm colour something like the Beurre de 

 Capiaumont ; the Triomphe de Jodoigne is a large green Pear, 

 said to be of first-rate quality. 



Mr. Higgs furnished a dish of Barchard's Seedling Apple, a 

 medium-sized, good-looking fruit, which was pronounced to be 

 well-flavoured. 



Mr. Powell, Gardener to C. G. Thornton, Esq.. F.H.S., also 

 furnished a dish of what has been called Marden Hill Seedling, a 

 Hertfordshire Apple reported to have much merit. 



Some good specimens of Red Astrachan Apples were contributed 

 by Mr. Busby, the Gardener at Stockwood Park, Luton. 



Mr. Fry, Gardener to Mrs. Dent, of Manor House, Lee, Kent, 

 sent a dish of Coe's Golden Drop Plums in good condition. 



From Mr. Eraser, of Luton Hoo Park, came three bunches of 

 the Black Morocco Grape, a coarse kind not generally sought for. 



Mr. Spary, of the Queen's Graperies, Brighton, produced well- 

 coloured Black Hamburgh Grapes ripened without the aid of fire 

 heat. 



Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, furnished the yellow 

 Begonia xanthina in blossom ; but it was a small specimen, and 

 poorly flowered, not at all like the handsome figure of this really 

 fine plant recently given in the Botanical Magazine. 



From the Tooting Nursery came a collection of Orchids ; but 

 these, as well as a yellow-flowered, white-striped leaved Aphelandra, 

 from M. Van Houtte, of Ghent, but shown by the Messrs. 



